business services
SumUp raises $624M at $8.5B valuation, with its payments and business tech now used by 4M SMBs
A decade ago, SumUp was one of the army of fintechs that made names for themselves with dongles that turned basic smartphones into card payment terminals. Today, the London-based company…
Rooftops for rent: Property owners should partner with 5G carriers
The solution to the 5G race is to adopt a rooftop deployment strategy.
Ventures Platform, Hustle Fund back Nigerian fintech Brass in $1.7M round
Small and medium enterprises make up more than 95% of all businesses in Nigeria. But despite their sheer size and importance, a majority of them are underserved by financial institutions…
WeWork unbundles its products in an attempt to make itself over, but will the strategy work?
For years, there was a debate as to whether WeWork was a tech company or more of a real estate play. At first, most people viewed WeWork as a real…
Visa and Kenya’s Safaricom partner on M-Pesa, payments and tech
Visa just connected to Africa’s most powerful mobile payments network. The global financial services company and Kenyan telecom Safaricom — operator of the M-Pesa mobile money product — announced a…
Rocketspace and Alchemist accelerator partner up to go international
The accelerator and seed-stage fund for business to business startups, Alchemist Accelerator, and the curated co-working community called Rocketspace, have partnered up in a way that should help both expand…
